Divergent teaser trailer

August 26, 2013 - By Liam Goodwin

Summit Entertainment have released the first teaser trailer for Divergent. The trailer aired during the MTV VMAs and it is now online for all to see. The movie, directed by Neil Burger, stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James and is set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities.

Kate Winslet has finally entered franchise territory and plays Jeanine Matthews, a villain who is the leader of Erudite, one of the five factions in the world of Divergent. Summit/Lionsgate are hoping Divergent gets similar attention to The Hunger Games as there are two further novels written by author Veronica Roth. Insurgent was released last year and Allegiant will go on sale in October.

Watch the trailer below:

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another – for the rest of their lives. Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests, that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn’t fit into any one group. If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, this secret might help her save the people she loves … or it might destroy her.

Divergent also stars Ray Stevenson, Mekhi Phifer, Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb, Christian Madsen, Amy Newbold, Ashley Judd and Tony Goldwyn. Summit will release the film March 21, 2014 which was the same time The Hunger Games hit last year.